Horse World Online - free online horse breeding game

Horse World Online Birthday Celebration Final Week!

It's the last week of our 20th birthday celebrations and we've still got more gifts for everyone!

This has been a wonderful birthday month for us, and we hope everyone has loved the gifts we've been handing out. HWO has been a passion project for us over these last 20 years. For most of that time we've only been able to work on the game outside of our regular jobs but this past year we've been able to dedicate our time fully to continue development of the game and make it into the best online horse breeding game. We have so many ideas for the future and we can't wait to share them all with you as we continue to add more features and fix existing issues.

Your support means so much to us from buying player bonuses or pony tokens, subscribing to paid premium, following us on Patreon or even just sharing the game with your friends! With continue support from you all we can keep developing this game for many years into the future. So thank you all so much!

We've also been featured on The Mane Quest blog, check out this awesome article: https://www.themanequest.com/blog/2024/ ... me-history


What’s a birthday celebration without gifts? We’ve got gifts for everyone! Four weeks of gifts are planned with a new gift released on Fridays throughout the month of November. Make sure to check in each week to collect your gift. There's a new link in the side navigation where you can find your gifts waiting for you to collect.

This week’s gifts is a beautiful rearing horse hedge decoration for your farm with flowers and glittery sparkles floating in the air around it. Oh, and of course we can't forget the pony tokens... this week we're giving everyone a whopping 250 pony tokens!!

We’re also running a sale on Player Bonuses, for the entire month you can enjoy 25% off any Player Bonus!

Horse World Online Birthday Celebration Week 3!

It's the third week of our 20th birthday celebrations and we've got more gifts for everyone!

This week we wanted to reminisce about our old horse artwork and share how far we’ve progressed since the game first launched 20 years ago.

We’ve seen a few major artwork updates over the years and experimented with a few techniques that never ended up being used. Our first horses were simple line drawings, with 10 different “base” horses, and the only the colours/markings changed on the artwork. Eventually we moved on to using Macromedia/Adobe Flash and updated the artwork to use line drawings with some simple detail shading. We even experimented with 3D horses using Macromedia Director but unfortunately Director was a short-lived product, and the 3D horses never actually made it into the game.

Then in 2014 we re-launched the game using our dynamic conformation horses. No longer did we need to maintain 10 different base horses, now all the horses could be created using just one base. We’re really looking forward to the new updated artwork we’re planning to launch for 2025, what amazing changes we’ve seen over our 20-year history.



What’s a birthday celebration without gifts? We’ve got gifts for everyone! Four weeks of gifts are planned with a new gift released on Fridays throughout the month of November. Make sure to check in each week to collect your gift. There's a new link in the side navigation where you can find your gifts waiting for you to collect.

This week’s gifts include a new celebration quarter sheet, and two celebration polo wraps to match the quarter sheet and last weeks saddlepads, and 75 pony tokens!!

We’re also running a sale on Player Bonuses, for the entire month you can enjoy 25% off any Player Bonus!

Horse World Online Birthday Celebration Week 2!

It's the second week of our 20th birthday celebrations and we've got more gifts for everyone!

Twenty years ago we were young, bright eyed and optimistic about the future of HWO. We were in active testing and development, and preparing to open the doors for everyone to join us. The official birthday launch for HWO is November 13th, or at least we're pretty sure it is, Ha Ha. You see it seems we never actually wrote down what date the game opened. I can say with certainty that the domain name was registered on October 7, 2004 but it was still a few weeks before we launched the game. The earliest archived page in the Internet Archives is dated November 13, 2004. So, we've decided long ago to celebrate that as the birthdate of HWO.

So this Wednesday make sure to give a little Cheer for us! It's been a very long, and sometimes very bumpy road, but we're so happy to be here and so thrilled that you all love this game as much as we do.

So, Cheers! Here's to many more years together!


What’s a birthday celebration without gifts? We’ve got gifts for everyone! Four weeks of gifts are planned with a new gift released on Fridays throughout the month of November. Make sure to check in each week to collect your gift. There's a new link in the side navigation where you can find your gifts waiting for you to collect.

This week’s gifts include 3 party celebration saddle pads and 50 pony tokens!!

We’re also running a sale on Player Bonuses, for the entire month you can enjoy 25% off any Player Bonus!

Happy 20th Birthday Horse World Online!

We are celebrating 2 decades of virtual horses, and the amazing wonderful players who’ve been a part of our journey. Horse World Online is among the oldest horse games that are still running, and we’ve got tons more planned for the future.

This past year, since we’ve both been able to dedicate ourselves full-time to running HWO, we’ve accomplished a lot of things. From new servers, new front-end code, new back-end code, many gameplay updates and now we’re working on updating the horse artwork so we can add in more colour and white marking genetics including Frame Over, Splash, Sabino, Dominant White and more!

Our little game has been a quiet pioneer in browser based horse breeding games. Many don’t realize this but HWO was the first game to offer dynamically generated horse images, and currently the only game to offer browser based dynamic conformation with animated growth changes.

We’re excited about what the future holds, especially when it comes to our horse artwork update!

Here’s some previews of what the new horses will look like, and two of them are testing out our planned posing system by posing their heads and neck.

We hope everyone is as excited as us about these upcoming changes. We can’t give you a release date yet as there’s still a lot of work to be done, but you can follow along with us on our Patreon for weekly updated, and as soon as we have a release date, we’ll make sure to tell you all!


What’s a birthday celebration without gifts? We’ve got gifts for everyone! Four weeks of gifts are planned with a new gift released on Fridays throughout the month of November. Make sure to check in each week to collect your gift. There's a new link in the side navigation where you can find your gifts waiting for you to collect.

This week’s gifts include 2 party wearables and 25 pony tokens, but we’re only just getting started

We’re also running a sale on Player Bonuses, for the entire month you can enjoy 25% off any Player Bonus!

Halloween on Horse World Online

Halloween has returned and with that we've got spooky barns, gnarled trees, pumpkins, jack-o-lanterns and more available in the farm building market.

New this year we've added in three Black Cats! One kitty sleeps during the day, waiting for night before stalking the yard. One kitty sits and watches, while the third kitty prowls around looking for fun and mischief!

The Tack Shop is stocked full of fun costumes for your horses to wear, perhaps a paddock parade is needed on your farm? Enjoy this fun holiday by dressing up your horses and your farms, and maybe bring home a black cat or two.